Hebrew fonts of files and folders

ohadbasan · 2012-01-27 17:34:58

Hey friends.

My kde desktop is not able to display hebrew names of files and folders, in dolphin file manager for example (it appears as gibberish)
it used to work in the past and it seems like something had happened.

can anyone plz assist?

10x!

Last edited by ohadbasan (2012-01-27 17:35:42)

GordonGR · 2012-01-27 20:02:31

I have the same problem with some greek extended characters, like "ϡϠϙϘϝϜʹ͵" etc, under specific fonts (e.g. Ubuntu). I have no idea why, I suspect it is some bug of Qt's, but didn't manage to find any documentation. Do you have that issue too? I suspect they are connected.

Anyway, for the time being you can try out another font, say DejaVu. It works fine to me.

headkase · 2012-01-27 21:01:14

What could be happening to both of you is: Unicode Font Coverage. Basically, each character is called a glyph. A font definition file on your computer contains a set number of glyph's - one for each character. If the font does not contain an entry for the specific character you are trying to use then it won't be rendered properly. First thing to do is change to a different font-style and see if that new font contains the glyph's that were not rendering with the old one.

This Page may help in selecting a replacement font.

Edit

Also, in the case of Hebrew fonts you will need to find a "right-to-left" setting. That's how they are done. I'm not familiar where you would look for such a setting in KDE, probably in a "localization" type control panel applet.

Last edited by headkase (2012-01-27 21:13:04)

GordonGR · 2012-01-27 21:22:30

headkase wrote:

If the font does not contain an entry for the specific character you are trying to use then it won't be rendered properly.

That would indeed be the case if the fonts didn't work properly under GTK either. But alas, they do. For instance, I can perfectly well see the characters I wrote above under Chromium, but not in Dolphin, using Ubuntu font in both cases.

That is, in my case at least.

headkase · 2012-01-27 21:30:36

GTK is used for GNOME and Qt is used for KDE, with Arch being rolling release both should be fully Unicode by now. With the same font the only difference would be application Unicode support itself. I don't know why KDE isn't behaving when GTK apps do. The underlying glyph's however need to be present in the font.

ohadbasan · 2012-02-01 15:46:30

hmm...
I have all all the fonts installed and tried to change them
nothing helped.
the filenames are being shown like this: ×©×××× ×××××ª ××××¨×××ª ×¤××× ××ª ×××× (2)

nathanb · 2012-02-25 21:31:54

Anybody get this figured out yet? I'm having the same problem. Even reasonably normal characters not in the standard ASCII set are being displayed weirdly. In my music library, Queensrÿche appears as QueensrÃ¿che, for instance.

I switched to Arch from OpenSuSE, and it worked fine there. I'm using the same font (DejaVu Sans) that I was using with OpenSuSE, so I don't think it's a glyph mapping problem.

nathanb · 2012-03-03 00:33:35

For what it's worth, I solved my problem. And by "I solved" I mean "I asked it somewhere else and another person solved it".

http://superuser.com/questions/394550/u … arch-linux

Arch Linux

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Hebrew fonts of files and folders

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